India Unveils Landmark Healthcare Scheme

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India's government has presented a big-spending budget, with a new healthcare scheme. The BBC's Sameer Hashmi in Mumbai assesses the spending plans, whilst Rahul Tandon reports from West Bengal on the challenge of creating more jobs in rural India. Also in the programme, the leaders of Italy's Five-Star Movement have been in London trying to gather support from international investors. We hear about the party's economic plans from Lorenzo Fioramonti, one of its candidates in the country's upcoming election. There are indications that negotiations between Britain and the European Union over the proposed implementation period for Brexit could become fraught. We discuss the latest developments with Roger Bootle of Capital Economics, and Sebastian Dullien, professor of international economics at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. Plus the BBC's Will Bain reports from Louisville, Kentucky, on the health of the US economy. (Picture: A hospital in India. Picture credit: BBC.)